UConn, BC to meet again in men's basketball

Staff and wire reports

Updated 11:55 pm, Wednesday, July 17, 2013

NEW YORK -- The men's basketball teams from UConn and Boston College, two of the original members of the Big East, will meet in the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 21.

UConn is starting its first season as a member of the American Athletic Conference while Boston College competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The two are former rivals who haven't played since the 2005 season. Jim Calhoun, UConn's coach at the time, was reportedly critical of BC for leaving the Big East for the ACC in 2003.

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The other semifinal on Nov. 21 will have Indiana facing Washington, it was announced Wednesday. The championship game will be Nov. 22.